> And then you have the "Oh, sizeof (long) will always be the same as sizeof (void *) and I can definitely do this cast!" libraries from 1999. Those are fun. J

> And then you have the "Oh, sizeof (long) will always be the same as sizeof (void *) and I can definitely do this cast!" libraries from 1999. Those are fun. Just out of curiosity-- where does this break down in common use? I know of some microcontrollers where e.g. long is 32 and pointers are 16... but most things really are ILP32 or LP64. P.S. Long, long ago you wrote you found Mel Kaye, and I'm always curious about the actual story.